Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
oo;o, Corras,ondence of the Alexa. GAZETTEl

were several members of General Lander
Post, No. 5, G. A. r., of Lynn, Mass, who
ara stopping over hero on their way back
home from q recent visit to Richmond
They say they will not do the President the
honor of calling upon him. OF their treat
ment in Richmond they speak tavoraDy,
but say if they had been disposed to be fault
finding they would have had ample cause
for manifesting that disposition in the "reb-
eli" speeches they heard in Richmond.
Public Printer Benedict is trying to intro
duce the half Saturday holiday in the print
ing Office by inducing the printers to make
up that holiday by working extra hours
during the other days of the week. But the
printers differ on this as on all other ques-
lions, all wanting the holiday, but some
willing to make up the lost hours anu oth.
ers not, so the present Indications are that
the proposed system will not be introduced.
The U. S. consul at Palermo has tele'
crenhed The Department of State that two
deaths occurred there yesterday believed to
have been caused by cholera.
The President to-day appointed d. M.
White, of New Hampshire, to be U. 5. con-
sui at Sherbrooke, Quebec.
The evidence in the contested election
case of McDutlie W.. Davidson, of the Selma,
Ala, d strict, was received and opened at
the office of the clerk of the House, in the
Capitol today, and will be given to the
public printer at once. This is, under the
new law intended to expedite the decision
in contested election cases. The district
referred to has q large colored majority, but
the democratic candidate is usually elected,
for the reason that there are not enough
white republicans in the district TO bring
the coored vote out; in one Of the counties,
Wilcox, for instance, ut one OF the recent
elections, while the total republican vote
was four or five thousand, it was proved
that there were only seven white republican
voters in the county.
The Presbytery Of Washington reassem
bled this morning to resume the hearing OF
testimony in the case of Rev. Mr.. Todd,
charged, on the evidence of the negro Tur-
ner, with lascivious conduct AS, however,
neither of the two new witnesses summoned
by the prosecution yesterday, nor Mr..
Hornbaker, whose testimony was re.
butted yesterday, were present, the Pres
bytery, after waiting until about eleven
O'Clock, recessed until two this afternoon,
when according to the report of the judici-
airy committee, the taking of testimony
ceased, and the argument commenced,
Rev. DIR. Childs leading oil with speech
of half hours length for the prosecution,
Rev. DIR. Sunderland replying in an hours
speech for the defense, and Rev. DR.. Chllds
concluding in another half hours speech,
when, it is supposed, the vote of the Pres
bytery will be taken.
The treatment the President has received
from the G. A. r. in many parts of the West
has not only induced him to Withdraw his
acceptance Of M invitation to Visit St. Louis,
but has determined him to make no visit to
any part of the West next summer and fall.
The treatment referred TO, will, it is gener.
ally supposed by Southerners here, even
those most opposed to Mr.. Cleveland
and to whom his civil service policy
ia most Objectionable, be the means
of uniting the South in his favor and
making it solid again. They say that
the people of their section are not lacking in
the quality of gratitude, and that though the
Presidents recent manifestation Of kindness
towards them had nothing practical in it,
they are grateful for it, and will be the more
anxious to evuce their gratitude in conse-
quence of the treatment he has received
from their haters in the North for showing
them that kindness.
Senator Ransom is still here His visit
Yesterday to the White House and subse-
Quently to the Interior Department had
nothing TO do with Secretary Lamars trans
fer from the latter to the Supreme bench as
reported and which if made at all will not
he until after the commencement OF the next
Congress, but was solely for the purpose Of
trying to settle the trouble created among
the democracy Of his State by the recent re-
moyal Of internal revenue commissioner
Dowd. Mr.. Dowd's numerous friends say
his removal casts q cloud over him, and they
demand that the charges brought against
him by inspector Clarke and endorsed by
Commissioner Miller be made known so that
they may be refuted, and that something be
then done to remove the imputation cast
upon their friend.
1t is stated by Senator Riddleberger's friends
here that he will be in this city probably this and
certainly not later than next week.
1t Is reported at the Capitol to-day that the sus-
pension of the two guides charged with in
sultng two young ladies there recently will be
permanent
ATTEMPTED CRIMINAL AssAULT-A ne.
gro man named Arthur Peterson, who says
he belongs in Wilson, n. c., and who was